Chester IBM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Chester region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guernsey Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Strathclyde Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.247 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£360	-
Average daily rate	£360	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£360	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£362
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.79	£25.28
% change on same period last year	+17.84 %
Vendors Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	89	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.145 %	0.102 %
Daily rates quoted	12	14
Average minimum daily rate	£267	£258
Average daily rate	£269	£268
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£279
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.57	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£23.69	£27.60
% change on same period last year	-14.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.81	£27.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.95	£23.82
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IBM across the Chester region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Chester region.

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing IBM also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited IBM.

1 2 (66.67 %) Mainframe 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (33.33 %) FMCG 2 1 (33.33 %) COBOL 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) DB2 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) AIX 2 1 (33.33 %) ISEB 2 1 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) CICS 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing IBM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) CICS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) DB2	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Mainframe 1 2 (66.67 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP